Momphrey v. Superior Court

Petition for writ of prohibition to prohibit the trial court from continuing with a contempt proceeding and from enforcing an order “modifying” the final judgment of divorce and ordering defendant to pay to plaintiff support for the minor children of the parties.

Record

On August 3, 1955, in a divorce action then pending between Mae Jewel Momphrey as plaintiff and petitioner as defendant, an interlocutory decree of divorce was entered granting Mae Jewel Momphrey a divorce, and awarding her the custody of the two minor children of the parties. The decree approved and incorporated a property…